The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-12
A Physicians OunseI and What Came
of 1T in Practice.

now"
'Is that so?'
eyes. | have come away, and the farm
which knew me would perhaps know me
yet if it could get a sight at me, but it
can't
81 went out, you know, by the advice of
a physician. Said he YOU need outdoor
exercise, and above all, sleep, such long
quiet nights sleep as you can only find in
the country away from the noise and heat
of the city, with the great open windows
and the cool and velvety breeze floating
through your room all night long, with
perhaps an occasional night with the pat
tering of rain upon the roof to lull you to
sleep That's what the doctor said.
$50 | hired out to a farmer to work all
summer. He said l was SO white and
pale that he couldn't give me anything but
my board for my services, but if l wanted
to work for that I might climb in behind
the seat and ride out.
$50 l did. He had one mule and one
horse, and the mule baked every time we
went up hill and the horse every time we
went down hill, and they both tried to run
away on the level. He drove them with a
trace-chain tied on a white ash axe-helye.
"But we got out there at last. don't
want to tell you anything about the work
to-day haven't time-but | feel as if |
must say something about those long
nights sleep.
"The first night we got home late, but
still the sun was only nicely down. The
sun sets about two hours later out there
than anywhere else in the known world.
after supper the farmer spent one hour
and a half telling me about the fax crop
on the back forty and then he reckoned we
had better milk. There were twelve cows
and he said he would take six. He gave
me the kickers, and it took me two hours,
and it had been dark a long time when /
finished. Then he had me to pnml up
water for the next day. And it took forty
minutes. Then 7 filled the wood box and
split the kindling wood. And as it was a
big box it took thirty minutes. Then he
told me about the oat crop, which took an
hour. And went | went to bed it was
growing light in the east.
"The window in the room was a pane of
glass nailed over an irregular hole in the
boards, and could not be opened. | felt
around in the dim light and finally got in
to bed. I had just fallen asleep and had
begun to dream l was lying along the
ridge pole of a double-humped camel,
when the farmer pounded on the stairs
with an old broom stick and said break
fast was ready. l couldn't see, as it was
not any lighter than went went to bed,
though the sky in the east was a little
redder.
II will pass over the day, as it is painful
to recall. Or rather the day and the last
end of one night aud the first end of
another, for we were in the bayfield, six
teen hours.
"And that evening after supper he said
might throw the dirt out of a new cellar
while | rested.
''Then we MIXED and he gave me eight
COWS instead of six-all kickers. And one
of them was a hooker, too, and slammed
me through the corn crib.
81 got to bed an hour sooner than the
night before, because he said he was think
ing some of getting up early the next
morning.
Sand that night it rained, and heard
the pleasant patter of the rain on the roof
that the old fra nd of doctor spoke about.
But it didn'. lull me to sleep because it
leaked down on me and got the bedclothes
all wet and l caught cold.
"And when the farmer pounded on the
stairs l got up and looked at my watch,
and | lad been abed an hour and forty
minutes. And my clothes were wet and
| there was water in my shoes.
"But it was a good day and we worked
at the hay again. We moved down what
the farmer called a 'slather' of it. And
| that night after I had rested awhile on the
| cellar and MIXED the twelve cows-twelve
kickers-and one of them thought was
trying to kidnap her calf and she chased
me out of the yard-the farmer said it look
| ed like rain again, and he reekoned we'd
better cock up that hay before bedtime.
"And before we got to the field / saw the
morning star. and when I had got up
twelve punches of hay, and the old hypo-
critic of a farmer four, l heard a lark. Then
| when l had up twenty-four punches and
| the farmer six, it begin to grow light.
"When the farmer saw it he laid down
| on the hay and laughed for ten minutes.
| He said we had worked right through the
night without knowing it.
"But | had known more about it than
he thought l had.
"We worked an hour longer ana then we
went to house, and | MIXED. Breakfast
wasn't quite ready, and l threw a couple OF
| cubic yards of sand out of the bottom of
cellar.
"And while we were eating the farmer
told me to hurry, because he would like to
get in one full dry's work during haying. !
said I would, too, and that | would stop
| and go out and harness the horses. And
| he said that was business, and | went out
| and ran down the road and walked into
| town.
"And now | am looking for that old lial